After hosting a couple of printmaking workshops at The Steel Rooms, we agreed that I would create an exhibition, stretching from the downstairs café, up some stairs and into the large upstairs gallery space. I decided to base much of the show on work that was inspired by my trip to Iceland two years before. This meant a first outing for my prints featuring poured varnish and carborundum powder, built up in thick layers on birch plywood. Other works featured experiments with faux metal leaf applied as chine collé, prints from plates made with burnt adhesive tapes, and a segmented landscape, assembled and printed from seven different plates.
Landscapes: Real and Imagined. The Steel Rooms, Brigg, North Lincolnshire, 2019